Today’s podcast: Hello Leap Year! Includes story about the Leap Year Capitol of the World, our giant slingshot party, and how I earned the title of The No. 1 Party Boy from the No. 1 Party School.
Thanks to Michael B., Stan & Helen, Matt S., Gabrcarf and all those who provided tangible support for the newsletter in the past week.
So how do I settle on topics for the newsletter. First I try not to repeat myself. And I try and be vaguely topical. If I have a topic that meets those criteria, I go to my 2,500 compilation of Tweet-like observation. If I have 6-10 originals, I’ll generally green light the topic. That’s how today wound up being …
FISH
• Persuade a marine biologist that a school of fish ought to be called a campus.
• Realize trying to justify the value of things like art, music and literature to bottom-line types is like trying to justify the value of fresh air to fish. Don’t even bother.
• Learn the serene pleasures of fly-fishing a lazy river in the summer. Take a class on how to tie your own bugs so you can stay in touch with the soulful daydreams during winter.
• Problem: plastics clogging the ocean; fish eat the plastics and we eat the fish. This may sound naive, but is anyone looking into the possibilities of making plastic out of fish food?
• A swim meet is an aquatic competition. A swim meat is an edible fish.
• The Swedes must cleanup in the fish Olympics. I mean, who's their competition? They are the only nation that has organized their fish in the whole pescatorial realm.
RANDOMS …
• Somebody should tell the fitness fanatics that many of them are extending their lives into the years they'll wish they were dead.
• I contend finding, securing and putting a rabbit INTO a hat requires just as much if not more magic as pulling it out of one.
• I wonder if promiscuous bovine adolescents roll their eyes anytime a parent counsels them to not have a cow.
• Any man who says he's his own worst critic is either delusional or unmarried.
• Your life will be more fun if you don't judge new friends on their virtues, but instead on their potential as compatible cellmates.
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